Prologue - Introduction to Ascenrir
Ascenrir, a paradise for all the Pokémon created by the hand of Arceus. The earliest Pokémon there lived happily with each other, sharing the plentiful resources that were offered by this heaven land.
However, as time passed, those resources started to get scarcer and scarcer. The true nature of life began to take over this seemingly forever peaceful lifestyle. The strong stomped the weak, taking away the larger portion for their own. And thus, war was bound to happen. Armies were built upon trust and loyalty to a certain strongest Pokémon that their followers praised them. These armies soon established relentless wars around the region.
Arceus witnessed the chaos and decided to take measure in his own hands. With his sheer power, he ended the war, silencing the ones who opposed and divided the region into smaller parts. With that witnessed the beginning of the three kingdom era.
The Northern Kingdom took great pride in their grandiose icy mountains, a perfect place for the icy habitants to take shelter where blizzards accompanied their each and every step. The mountains opened up pathways for a complicated system of rivers to flow from between the mountain cracks and rush through the land, granting the terraces their needed irrigation.
The neighbouring Western Kingdom could even rival the richness in farming. Blessed with evergreen forests and fertile plains, the Western Kingdom was the tradepost of all the best and most valuable resources from all over Ascenrir. Pokémon everywhere flocked to this one place to share their discoveries as well as experiencing the serene lifestyle that the kingdom provided.
The formerly known three tribes from the East had merged themselves to become one unified land called the Eastern Alliance. Not as fortunate as the other two in terms of plantation, Eastern Alliance was mostly covered in desert. Sandstorm and the scorching heat weighed the steps of those who could not stand the extreme weather of the place. Yet, Eastern Alliance held numerous rumours and ancient maps that revealed unfound treasures. Daring adventurers always ventured to the land in search of a life changing fortune.
During the Ascenrir war, most of the residents of the Eastern Alliance had decided to leave the land to avoid getting involved in. They were the Solari and the Lunari tribe. Led by their chiefs to cross the ocean, they found themselves a new home under the guardians of Celestine Mountain. Similarly, a lot of refugees from the war fled further south and created a community for themselves in the place known as the Southern Isles.
When everything was thought to settle down, strange phenomenon started to appear all over Ascenrir. Countless deadly mystery dungeons began to appear from nowhere, trapping and killing innocent lives.
These mystery dungeons were rumoured to be the revenge of the souls that died in the war. They reincarnated as another lifeform, lurking in the complicated terrains of each dungeon waiting for their chances to strike. These souls, although bearing the appearance of a normal Pokémon, were actually discovered by the survivors of the dungeons to be unable to feel or have thoughts. They were more or less trapped inside the infinite loop of the dungeon, making them able to be revived when the dungeon recreated itself even after they were killed. Because these Pokémon could not think or feel, they just wandered around in the dungeon aimlessly, attacking everything to satisfy their living instinct.
The leaders of the countries knew they had to do something to tackle this issue. They decided to meet up at Eclipse Range, the largest mountain range of Ascenrir, which also served as the primary border to separate the three places apart.
There, they all came to an agreement to establish the Chronicle Union who would govern the three smaller Divisions built within the capital city of each country. These Divisions are Daybreak, Sunrise and Twilight Division belonging to the West, North and East respectively.
The Divisions would cater all the need for the Pokémon at that time whether it was exploring and reporting back what was happening inside those dungeons, hosting rescuing team to go out and provide support to those explorers or trading the valuables that the exploration teams managed to bring back from those dungeons. Operating independently, yet, these Divisions were bound to a list of written rules that aimed at protecting the life of the Pokémon working for the Division and ensuring that there remained no conflicts nor fights happening inside each Division.
As a result, the birth of the Chronicle Union provided the Pokémon around the region their needed job and offered a more well-balanced society. However, the peaceful period did not last long for the forces of evil from within each kingdom had arisen. They were lurking in the shadow of the aftermath, waiting for the correct moment to strike fear into the hearts of Ascenrir once more.